Matthew vs Joshua

GBR GBR · Open Men · 12 results

Matthew Blackwell

1:00:38 best Open Men time · Manchester 2026
29th of 2,544 place in that race · 2,544 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 7 results

Joshua Lewis

1:00:30 best Open Men time · London ExCeL 2025
75th of 5,554 place in that race · 5,554 Open Men finishers

Station radar · best race with a field of 30 or more

Matthew: Manchester 2026, Open Men · Joshua: London ExCeL 2025, Open Men

50% SkiPushPullBBJRowCarryLungesWall ballsRoxzoneRuns
no split
MatthewJoshuaedge = faster than everyone, centre = slowest

This chart shows where Matthew and Joshua sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Matthew: strongest on Row (faster than 99% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 77%).Joshua: strongest on Lunges (faster than 99% of the field), weakest on Pull (faster than 88%).

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Part Matthew: faster than Joshua: faster than
Ski 98% 96%
Push 83% 95%
Pull 99% 88%
BBJ 91% 97%
Row 99% 93%
Carry 77% 97%
Lunges 84% 99%
Wall balls 97% 89%
Roxzone 99% 98%
Runs 99% no split

Each athlete against their own field at their own best race (division, gender, that venue). Further out is faster.

Part by part

Part Matthew Joshua
SkiErg 98% 96%
Sled push 83% 95%
Sled pull 99% 88%
Burpee broad jump 91% 97%
Row 99% 93%
Farmers carry 77% 97%
Sandbag lunges 84% 99%
Wall balls 97% 89%
Roxzone (moving) 99% 98%
Runs (8 km) 99% —

The share of their own field each athlete beat on that segment, at the race named on the left. Higher is better; green marks the better of the two. A dash means no split was published.

Those races as one bar each

Matthew · Manchester 2026 · Open Men1:00:38
2:493:573:522:183:572:544:023:274:084:064:071:514:114:103:244:093:22
Joshua · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men1:00:30
2:164:212:442:073:023:503:073:123:114:283:011:252:593:024:185:068:29
RunsStationsRoxzone (moving between stations)

This chart draws the race in order, left to right: each 1 km run (blue), each station (yellow) and the roxzone (grey), sized by its time.Matthew · Manchester 2026 · Open Men: 30:30 running, 26:52 at the stations and 3:22 in the roxzone; the longest station was the sandbag lunges (4:10).Below, Joshua · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men: 24:38 running, 27:31 at the stations and 8:29 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (5:06).

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Part Matthew · Manchester 2026 · Open Men Joshua · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 2:49 2:16
SkiErg 3:57 4:21
Run 2 3:52 2:44
Sled push 2:18 2:07
Run 3 3:57 3:02
Sled pull 2:54 3:50
Run 4 4:02 3:07
Burpee broad jump 3:27 3:12
Run 5 4:08 3:11
Row 4:06 4:28
Run 6 4:07 3:01
Farmers carry 1:51 1:25
Run 7 4:11 2:59
Sandbag lunges 4:10 3:02
Run 8 3:24 4:18
Wall balls 4:09 5:06
Roxzone 3:22 8:29
Finish 1:00:38 1:00:30

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Matthew Joshua Gap
Manchester 2026 Open Men · 21 Jan 2026 1:00:38 1:00:45 0:07 · Matthew faster
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